Kong is a next generation cloud-native API platform for multi-cloud and hybrid organizations. When building for the web, mobile, or Internet of Things, you’ll need a common functionality to run your software, and Kong is that solution. Kong acts as a gateway, connecting microservices requests and APIs natively while also providing load balancing, logging, monitoring, authentication, rate-limiting, and so much more through plugins. Kong is highly extensible as well as platform agnostic, connecting APIs across different environments, platforms and patterns. Achieve architectural freedom with Kong today.

Features

  • Cloud-native and platform agnostic
  • Dynamic and hash-based load balancing
  • Circuit-breaker for smart tracking of unhealthy upstream service
  • Active and passive health checks
  • Service discovery
  • Serverless
  • WebSockets communication to your upstream services
  • gRPC services communication
  • Easy adding of OAuth2.0 authentication
  • Logging requests and responses to your system over HTTP, TCP, UDP, or to disk
  • Security through ACL, Bot detection, whitelist/blacklist IPs and more
  • Syslog
  • SSL Certificate set up
  • Live monitoring
  • Forward Proxy
  • Authentications, including HMAC, JWT, Basic and more
  • Rate-limiting
  • Transformations of HTTP requests and responses
  • Caching
  • Control Kong cluster through CLI
  • RESTful API
  • Geo-Replicated
  • Failure detection & recovery
  • Clustering
  • Scalability through additional nodes
  • NGINX
  • Plugins

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License

Apache License V2.0

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Operating Systems

Linux, Mac, Windows

Programming Language

Lua

Related Categories

Lua Cloud Services Software, Lua Load Balancers, Lua API Gateways, Lua LLM Gateways, Lua MCP Gateways

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2020-05-26